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Microsoft Foundry in Azure Government

Microsoft Foundry is available in Azure Government for US federal, state, and local governments and their partners. Use this article to find the supported regions, endpoints, and platform features in Azure Government. For agent-specific feature availability, see Foundry Agent Service feature availability in Azure Government.

Supported regions

Microsoft Foundry is deployed in the following Azure Government regions:

Region Region identifier
US Gov Virginia usgovvirginia
US Gov Arizona usgovarizona

Capabilities can differ by region. See the feature tables in this article and in Foundry Agent Service feature availability in Azure Government for specifics.

Endpoints

Use the following endpoints to access the Foundry portal, your project, and the Azure portal in Azure Government.

Foundry portal

https://ai.azure.us/nextgen

Foundry project endpoint

Replace {resource-name} and {project-name} with your values:

https://{resource-name}.services.ai.azure.us/api/projects/{project-name}

Azure portal

https://portal.azure.us

Models

For the list of Foundry Models sold directly by Azure that are available in Azure Government, see Foundry Models sold by Azure in Azure Government.

Azure OpenAI features

Feature Available
Responses API Yes
Model router No

Enterprise and security features

Feature Available
Agent identity (Microsoft Entra) Yes
Private networking (VNet integration) Yes
Role-based access control (RBAC) Yes
Network Security Perimeter (NSP) Yes
Content safety and guardrails Yes

For more information on adding Foundry to a Network Security Perimeter, see Add Microsoft Foundry to a network security perimeter.

Guardrails

Guardrail Available
Block lists Yes
Jailbreak detection Yes
Content Safety Yes
Protected materials detection Yes

Observability

Capability Available
Tracing (prompt agents) Yes
Evaluations No
Optimization No

Foundry Agent Service

Foundry Agent Service is available in Azure Government with a subset of agent types and tools. For the full list of supported agent types, tools, and publishing options, see Foundry Agent Service feature availability in Azure Government.

Quotas and limits

For quotas and limits that apply to Azure OpenAI models in Azure Government, see Azure OpenAI quotas and limits in Azure Government.

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